Tas. 5308. 
SCILLA BERTHELOTII. 
Berthelot’s Squill. 
Nat. Ord. LitraceE#.—HeExanpria MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, sex-partitum, campanulatum, rotato-patens. 
Stamina 6, perigonii laciniis basi inserta ; filamenta eequalia, subulata. Ovarinm 
3-loculare. Ovuda in loculis plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus 
filiformis, rectus ; stigma obtusum. Capsula obtuse trigona, 3-locularis, loculi- 
cido-trivalvis. Semina in loculis pauca, horizontalia, subglobosa ; festa crustacea, 
juxta raphen incrassata, atra v. pallescente-fusca. Embryo axilis, dimidii albu- 
minis longitudine, extremitate radiculari umbilico parallele contigua.—Herbe 
bulbose, in Europa media, in regione Mediterranea et Capite Bone Spei obvie ; 
racemo Jaxo scapum terminante, pedicellis bracteatis, floribus albis v. ceruleis. 
Endl. 
Sciuta Berthelotii ; bulbo oblongo fusco, foliis 2-3 linearibus acuminatis gla- 
bris caulem ad tertiam partem vaginantibus scapo brevioribus, spica gra- 
cili, pedicellis inferioribus remotiusculis bracteis setaceis sublongioribus, 
perigonii exigui laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, apice incrassato-glaudulosis sta- 
mina excedentibus. Wed}. 
Scitua Berthelotii. Webb, Phytogr. Canar. sect. iii. p. 337. ¢. 232. 
A plant of the genus Seil/a was so little expected by us from 
a country within the Tropics, and only four degrees from the 
Equator, that when the present plant, which had been sent to 
us by our zealous collector Mr. Gustav Mann, from the Came- 
roons River, tropical Africa, in 1861, flowered in our stove the 
latter end of the same year, I thought, unornamental as the plant 
is, it deserved a place in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ on account of 
its locality. I little expected, however, to find that it was no 
new plant, but one already described in the Canary Island Flora 
of Messrs. Webb and Berthelot, in which country it grows (“in 
rupestribus maritimis humidiusculis Teneriffe’), accompanied 
by the remark on its geographical distribution, “ Planta est ex 
toto Canariensis.” But here it appears at a distance of twenty- __ 
four degrees of latitude and twenty-seven of longitude from 
Teneriffe. I am, however, still rather puzzled whether to refer 
APRIL Ist, 1862. 
